Ron DeSantis' wife is calling campaign shots. And she's not going to soften his extreme stances.

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As Ron DeSantis prepares to officially start his presidential campaign, his allies are referring to his wife, Casey, as his greatest campaign asset.

His detractors are calling her Lady Macbeth and “a vindictive motherf**ker.”

A recent profile of Casey DeSantis in Politico Magazine shows a sharp, charismatic woman who is ideally suited to counterbalance her husband’s well-documented social awkwardness. It also reveals a woman who so tightly connected to her husband’s career that many decisions seem to run through her as much as through her husband, to the fear of staff and to the detriment of his campaign.

Oddly enough, the two sides of Casey DeSantis’ personality have proven to be equally an asset and a liability to husband Ron.

“Does she sort of humanize the robot? Does she push him on the grip-and-grin, the baby-kissing, give him a cleaner, softer image? Yes,” one former gubernatorial staffer told Politico. “Does she also feed into his, I guess, worst instincts of being secluded and insular and standoffish with staff? Yes.”

Casey met her husband-to-be in 2006 when she was a television reporter and he was a Navy JAG. They married three years later at – get ready – Disney World.

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